After a hard week laying people off, Draft/FCB management needs to relax!

My post of last night concerning the poor sod on the Draft/FCB payroll who is monitoring AdScam 24/7 for deleterious stuff from yours truly, will have a job erasing this link, concerning the luxurious Sag Harbor weekend retreat Laurence shares with his partner, Steven Kinder. As he puts it so succinctly... "The compound is a serendipitous adventure!" I'll bet it is. In the meantime all the poor fuckers recently laid off at Draft/FCB are having a serendipitous time signing on for their unemployment benefits. But wait, there's more! One of my Draft/FCB "Deep Throats" (of which I have many) tells me more layoffs are in the pipeline! Well shit, someone has to pay for all that weekend splendor. Otherwise how is Laurence going to relax after a hard week working out in his private gym on West 33rd Street? It's tough at the top. As Auntie Christ points out in a comment... WHEN YOU SCREW OVER YOUR EMPLOYEES WHILE YOU CONTINUE TO PROFIT DESPITE YOUR PROFESSIONAL AND MORAL INNEPTITUDE, YEAH, WE WILL NOT GO QUIETLY. Fuck, don't think I could have put it any better myself. Let's see how quickly Hughie, Dewie & Louie can blow up the offices of Coastal Living!

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Mmmm... Looks like it has religous overtones to me!

Comments

[LAM]

Amazing how far up Michael Roth's backside Howard Draft must truly be. (Historically, those two have always "looked out" for each other.) After all, could you imagine any other holding company head permitting one of their business units to install a swank bunker for the "top management" (read: Hugie, Dewie and Louie) complete with a personal gym IF the same company had lost the amount of business that D/FCB has and, in addition, has had to lay off 150 employees?? Excuse me, but WHERE are the IPG shareholders and board on all of this?? Don't they think that this sort of behavior is a tad excessive considering the rate in which the company loses business....IPG should be held accountable for the mess they created and allowed to continue under the auspices of Howard, Laurence and that no-talent fool, Jonathan... So, yes, George, we will NOT let them off the hook - they deserve to be held accountable for their gross hubris, mismanagement and overall stupidity....just because the IPG board and shareholders continue to shirk their responsibility in this regard, it doesn't mean that others won't hold them accountable...even if only in the "court of public opinion." In the meantime, they need to please stop with the insultingly verbose and poorly written, cliche-ridden staff memos...as more and more people are fired they become less and less amusing...and they are ALWAYS highly inappropriate....Qualities such as "trust,"honesty" and "clarity" should be at the foundation of all employee relations...three concepts which are clearly foreign and totally abstract to this sadly pathetic management team...In the meantime, George, thanks for your insightful comments on that mess - they're much appreciated.

[LANfan]

Take a deep breath, LAN. The "swank bunker" is a 10 x 10 inner office with a treadmill and an elyptical machine. The number of people that unfortunately had to be let go after the Verizon loss is more like 50. Others on the account moved into open positions or were absorbed elsewhere in IPG, like at MRM, the winning agency. Draft/FCB still employs something like 1,400 people in NY alone. The agency works with more than 100 Fortune 500 companies worldwide. It's won 15- 20 clients in the USA over the past year. Looking at your blog, it appears you know nothing about honesty, trust or clarity. But never let the facts get in the way of a good post, huh?

[Auntie Christ]

"Steven brings this remarkable, insightful creative expression to anything he does,” says Laurence. “It’s not just his sense of design, it’s also his love of getting his hands into it....."

Whatever "it" is, I wonder if we've just discovered the next ECD of Draft/FCB NY.

LAM is 110% correct. In the new "performance-based" model of an agency, why are these guys never held accountable for their performance? The IPG board is probably well compensated to look the other way until these guys can turn things around. I think it may be a long wait.

[George Parker]

Oh...
I wonder if LANfan is Hughie, or Louie, or Dewie? If he's just a regular Draft/FCB employee he's very naive, not to mention stupid... Funny that he calls the gym the "Swank Bunker." Obviously this is the name used by the "Not so arse lickingly loyal" majority of the workers. Don't you realize, given a choice, management will ALWAYS fuck you. That's how they get to be part of management!
Meanwhile... Great posts from LAM and Auntie Christ, as usual. Thanks guys.
Cheers/George

[Direct2Nowhere]

LAM is not Huey Dewey or Louie. However I know for a fact that the ever sharp minds in DFCB corp comm come up with witty responses for blogs like this and then have one of the poor cubicle saps post it to the comment section.

For a company that does advertising they really dont have any idea how to market themselves. They also have ZERO idea what 'online' means.

Hell, if H,D, or L had any wits about them, they would find blogs like this and participate openly.

I mean if you really believe the bullshit you spew then why not right?

I can picture this conversation in my head:

Corp Comm Exec: "Howard the internet is full of blog posts that are exposing us for what we really are. How shall we proceed?

Howard: "Blogs are part of the AOL right? I have some friends over there, I'll send a case of effen."

[the lower depths]

LANfan: you don't fire people if you're winning.

simple economic fact.

you might move them around, but you'd be in a hiring mood, what with all the great new work you'd have to get done...

[mer01de]

LANfan,
There were two layoffs (so far). The first occurred on the first day we were all at 33rd Street, and those were the Verizon layoffs. A few of those people have been moved to other IPG agencies, but most have not. They were given until August 19th to get their act together, then they're out.

The second layoff was two weeks ago, and the people who were hit had nothing to do with Verizon. These people were out the door that night.

I hope you have your resume together. Don't believe for a second that you're safe there.

[Auntie Christ]

"They were given until August 19th to get their act together, then they're out."

Fuck, my ID/passcard was taken away in my "decruitment", my phone and computer were shut off, the piece of paper saying if I sued I'd lose my severance was shoved in my face and I was escorted out. I couldn't even scrounge up samples of work I'd done, had to make that happen later. I wasn't a peon in the salt mines either. What makes those folks so special? Verizon paying their salaries to transition the work until the 19th? I would have done anything for a nice long "heads up".

When they asked what I wanted shipped from my office I said "Everything". Every piece of paper in my files, everything I probably would have tossed out, chipped coffee cups, dried out markers, old Syquest and zip disks, probably a couple of hundred big-assed heavy stock books. At least they had to spend a fortune to FedEx it all to my home. THEN I threw it out.

[mer01de]

Auntie Christ,
Same here, the whole thing. I even had a ceremony of sorts and burned the inserts from that stupid keychain they gave us at the last Town Hall meeting.

"Enjoy the ride"? My ass.

[theo kie]

This all would be even more sad if the agency's future hadn't been so completely forseen when they signed the merger with Draft.

I feel for the people who are out the door. Still, in a lot of ways I feel worse for the "true believers" who still sit inside that machine. Who really wants to be art directing spots where a blue lightbulb drives a school bus?

[Auntie Christ]

Have a coupla' cocktails on me, mer01de. OK, I'm poor now (but happy) so just make it pints. I know it sounds stupid, but you ARE better off. Horrible press, bad management, not so great pay, mediocrity rewarded via nepotism over genuine talent....

All the team-building crap and Laurence prosletizing and feigning that the agency is your "family" is bullshit. It's a fucking job. It's all just time to make the donuts. If we're lucky we'll get to do good work that we're proud of, be well rewarded and make a couple of friends along the way. I won quite a few Caples Awards for the agency but that meant squat when they wanted to save a couple dollars (believe me, my salary was way below industry average for my title). And Draft was so bad on an interpersonal level that after a decade there NOT ONE PERSON attempted to call me after I got shitcanned. Not one, and I had close dealings with dozens of people daily. How's that for a place that fosters "family"?

I say let's continue to contribute our feedback here and watch the fireworks.

Best to you.

[hammerandtong2001]

Don't even know where to begin.

I ahve posted yahoo finance for years about the problems here.

IPG is in year 4 of an SEC investiagtion and a few months ago gave Wells Notice.

Is this "investment grade"/

I'd suspect Phillipe's hacks are running damage control -- he's gotto do something to earn that $2mil every year. Right?

Luv & Kisses

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[XdraftE]

I've got to hand it to you, Parker. You've been dead on with all your posts on Draft. Please, please, please, keep it up.

My God, how scary is that poor man, Boschetto? "Be with them," indeed. What an arrogant, delusional, misguided asshole. As soon as I heard that blasphemy, I should have run away -- far, far away. Oh, well -- what the fuck did I know? I was just a kid.

Finally, Auntie and Mer01de -- I've shared your experiences. So I suspect (strongly) that we know eachother. I agree, Auntie, we may be poorer, but we're better off.

And to everyone else: Sorry. I've been watching these posts for a while and had to get this off my chest.

[fuckdraft]

There were many people tossed out the dor in the past few weeks that had ten years or more in the "family". No goodbyes, no take cares, no thanks for all the hard work. Just a paper that says "don't sue us or you will be sorry" and an escort out of the building holding a box of worthless shit you'll throw out when you get home.

Honestly I bought into the "family" idea there. But now all I can say is fuck you HD, LB, WL, PD, TF, etc, etc.

Fuck you and I hope you enjoy watching DraftFCB become FCB again while Draft sails into the sunset only to become a sad memory in most people's minds.

[mer01de]

Auntie and XdraftE,
I appreciate your support, and I have no doubt that I'm better off. So let's all raise a pint to thank God we're out of there.

I almost snorted coffee out my nose when I read "Be with them." I was actually thinking about that speech last night. Couldn't believe LB compared the work of Mother Theresa to advertising -- saving lives and coddling clients -- same thing, right? We could have triggered an earthquake with all the jaws that hit the floor that night.

I wonder what it feels like to have no conscience.

[Ex-Draft emp]

As an ex-Draft employee who was let go in an earlier blood-letting, I must say it's nice to catch up on the news. Does anyone know if the Evil Triplets of Verizon, namely Nancy Grebey, Pat McGuire, and Ted Eyes, still have their cushy jobs? Pure evil, that bunch.

[LAM]

You all need to focus on the fact that the reason Michael Roth has the job (which he is doing so poorly that it's not worth further comment) is because HOWARD DRAFT handed it to him. Howard was behind Micheal getting the top IPG spot. Howard had so much IPG stock that it was almost considered "material" and Michael (a more honest representation of Michael would be if he went back to sporting his gold chains and stopped cloaking himself in pinstripes) had been fired from his job at MONY and was an IPG board member when Howard (who owned a truck load of IPG stock) pushed for him to replace John Dooner who was then exiled back to McCann....that's what happened and ever since then, they've assiduously watched each other's backsides...so, you are NEVER going to get rid of that absurdly deficient management at Draft/FCB until Michael Roth is no longer part of the equation. Keep in mind Michael can't admit to the failure of this poorly executed "project" - kinda like George Bush and the Iraq war...in other words, why would anyone let Huey, Dewy and Louie, with their antediluvian ideas, take over the damm place to begin with? You have equally loathesome individuals such as Jonathan Harries there because of SC Johnson....and you've got a lying bunch of thugs running that piece of business...they've lied to their client, lied to IPG (who's management is way too scared AND stupid to see through it)...so please continue with your blogs George....we welcome your wit and wisdom in the face of all this - and the forum you've provided for us to "vent" our frustrations over the lack of intelligent, selfless and visionary leadership at a company (FCB) that used to be the considered the "gold standard" in the business (circa 1989.) Brendan Ryan - who could be considered alalogous to a barnacle (i.e.: annoying, parasitic, and god knows, tenacious)spearheaded the demise of FCB and Howard and Company have furthered the effort...'tis sad and, alas, all too true...

[mer01de]

Ex-Draft emp,
Yes, Nancy, Pat and Ted are all still there. I think they're heading up the Sears work.

You must have some great stories. Do tell!

[Ex-Draft emp]

I left in 2003, and have blocked out most of the horrible memories, so that I am left only with a vague sense of rage that people like Pat and Ted could find (and keep) a job anywhere, doing anything, let alone run a creative group. I have never in my life met two less-talented people. Nancy's actually pretty smart, but she's pure evil. Evil, evil, evil.

I came over from Ammirati with Shelley Lanman, and while we were able to keep our little Compaq group together, it was quite the happy family (despite the shame of working at Draft). And I'm still in touch with a number of them.

I remember arriving at Draft, and thinking how beaten-down all the creatives looked. There were actually some talented people there too, who never got the chance to actually do any good work, or the mentorship that would have made that possible. There were also some hacks there, but there are those anywhere.

Ugh. It's all like a bad dream. And there was a time I actually liked Laurence.

From what I've heard from my ex-Draft friends, all the good folks are gone. So mer01de and Auntie Christ, that's probably a great recommendation for you both.

Suffice it to say that my life is ten times better now than it was while I was there.

Good luck to you, and get a good headhunter.

[Draftsucks]

The fact that an industry continues to employ people like Pat McGuire and Ted Eyes is mindboggling. Pat McGuire is the worst sort of direct mail hack. On top of that, she is evil and twisted -- I cannot tell you how glad I was to be fired for not toeing her line. If I ever see her sniffing around for a job at my agency, I will personally see to it that she stays out on the street. And as for Ted Eyes, pathetic.

[Ex-Draft emp]

Draftsucks:
I could have written your post. I remember many conversations with both creatives and account people during which we speculated that Pat and/or Ted had SOMETHING on either Laurence or David Florence or Howard. There's really no other explanation why those two should be gainfully employed. They're horrible. And yes, Pat is particularly evil.

The other gossip was that Pat and Ted had had some sort of romantic relationship, based solely on the fact that their hatred for one another is readily apparent to anyone who spends more than five minutes with the two of them.

[Auntie Christ]

Guys, Ted & Pat have no relationship other than professional. I thought the same thing at first, like a constantly fighting pair of newlyweds, but trust me, she can't stand his laziness and arrogance. No, they aren't rocket scientists, but hey are still gainfully employed probably because they did work that Verizon liked, and Target liked etc. Their salaries are probably not very high, certainly less than someone comparable on the general side, and so they are probably being given a chance to prove themselves on other accounts, but we've seen there are no guarantees in this business. And I can confidantly say they never fired anyone that didn't deserve it. In fact they gave people a lot of rope to hang themselves first, since everything had to be documented. They never played the game of moving people around on org charts to get rid of someone they didn't like personally. If you could do the work, that's all they cared about.

Nancy Grebey is just an unhappy person, and that comes through as just seeming generally miserable. She's actually very warm when you get to know her -- or should I say, she gets to know you.

As far as Shelley Lanman is concerned, THAT was an evil bitch. First of all she and Robert Solomon at APL made sure everyone got HUGE raises before the merger. After the merger the APL folks were doing freelance work during the day and walking out the door every night at 5 while everyone else was just settling in for the night to bang out Verizon and American Express work. Shelley spent most of her time posturing to Laurence to eject ECD Emily Soell and appoint her group ECD with Carole Weitz. She tried to steal work from other CDs when Compaq walked. When she finally was appointed to head the creative department she forced her own hires on group heads even though those hires couldn't, or wouldn't perform (one particular hire was actually Shelley's supervisor during the beginning of her career and couldn't find work anywhere else and really needed a health plan).

Alot of creatives from that 80s era at Ogilvy did nothing more than vie for a better position in the industry, including her (she's probably posturing to take over the position of Satan as we speak). When Shelley died there was a collective "gasp" that was let out all at once from 90% of the people that were forced to work under her regime that could be heard everywhere. Without her as ECD a lot of folks she shielded ended up showing their true colors and were let go.

Sorry to seem cold, but I call it like I see it.

[Auntie Christ]

...meant to say "a collective 'sigh'"...... sorry

[Ex-Draft emp]

Sorry, Auntie Christ, but your post is a load of crap. And it might explain your complaint that "Draft was so bad on an interpersonal level that after a decade there NOT ONE PERSON attempted to call me after I got shitcanned. Not one, and I had close dealings with dozens of people daily." What, not even Nancy Grebey called you?

Shelley and Carole came into Draft as ECDs. Rather than gunning for Emily's position, Emily chose Shelley as her successor for CCO because she was ready for semi-retirement, and Shelley was the best choice within the agency. And those plans were in the works as early as 1999, and were shepherded along by Howard, Emily, and David -- not Laurence.

Shelley did not steal accounts from other CDs; she ran Compaq until she became the CCO. Other accounts she had in her group were pitched by her group. She did help re-pitch CIT in the agency's desperate bid to save that business in 2001 or 2002; this was because the account had been so poorly managed, and the creative was so bad, that the client wanted to pull the business. The agency didn't retain that business; as I recall, CIT told Draft that while the new work was far and away better than anything they'd ever seen from Draft, there was too much bad blood from the previous 12 years to continue the relationship.

What DID happen was that creatives were constantly trying to get INto Shelley and Carole's group; instead, teams were routinely yanked from their grasp and put to work for people they hated. The message from corporate was that it wasn't "fair" that Carole and Shelley had all the "good" people. The truth was that Draft had several "good" people who would have flourished in the Compaq group, but simply were denied the opportunity.

As far as leaving at five o'clock: my partner and I often left around 5:30, after which we'd head to the Italian restaurant down the street, where we'd work until 9 or 10 p.m., three or four nights a week. On weekends, we'd meet downtown to work for a few hours. I know that other teams did that as well. Which might explain why the bulk of work in the showcase on Draft's web site at the time had been done by people in Shelley's group. Just because someone isn't in the office doesn't mean they aren't working.

[Auntie Christ]

Ex, you have your perspective, I have mine.

A. Since Emily had just been hired 2 years previous to 1999, I doubt she was planning her exit strategy so soon, especially since the merger between the 3 agencies didn't happen until late 1999.

B. Shelley tried to take the Verizon B2B account from the CDs who had it. Compaq was LONG GONE and she and her partner were scrambling to hang onto their fiefdom and bloated salaries. She was reprimanded by Laurence and it almost cost her the appointment to CCO, and her job. It's a matter of record. Check with HR Director Eric Bacolas if you'd like.

C. Trust me, nobody was jealous that Carole and Shelley "had all the good people." They WERE jealous post-Compaq that Carole and Shelley had bodies sitting around who were highly paid, while the other accounts were understaffed and underfunded. And when many of those people were finally put on other accounts, some of them quit, claiming it too stressful, or were let go because clients didn't want them on the account (Both Verizon and Computer Associates requested the removal of VP CDs who came from Carole and Shelleys "family").

D. Sure, how many Verizon and Amex bill inserts can you show prospects and clients in the agencies public area? Perhaps a great deal of the work came from that group, but it was spec or pitch work, paid for by the bread and butter DM done by others.

E. "Just because someone isn't in the office doesn't mean they aren't working"....fine, that's you. But there were people those two rabidly protected...one VP CD comes to mind who would show up at work around 11am, and then find a couch to nap on for the balance of the day. She was finally let go when she commented to a client while digging at her hoo hoo that she had "an itchy vagina." You can't make this stuff up.

And no, not even Nancy Grebey called me.

[Ex-Draft emp]

True, I do have my perspective. Again, I'm sorry that no one called you. But rumors abound everywhere, and your information may not be as good as you think.

A. The merger happened in November of 1998.

B. Eric Bacolas was more interested in appearing dead center in every photo of every Draft "party" than he ever was in building an agency. If Laurence did reprimand Shelley, it seems odd that you would have that knowledge -- unless Eric was telling tales out of school, which wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. Never understood how that weasel got so much power. And if Shelley did indeed do that (what'd she do, call the client directly and demand that the work be switched to her group?), and her job was indeed in jeopardy, it doesn't make sense that they would then promote her to the highest position in the department.
C. At least one of Carole and Shelley's "family" pitched and won the CA business, as I recall. Nor do I recall anyone sitting around.
D. The work in the showcase was all work that had been produced and aired for clients, like HP/Compaq and Voom or Zoom or whatever it was called. Perhaps also HBO. None of it was spec or pitch.
E. While there are elements of truth to this story, your version is far more sensational than what actually happened. I knew the CD in question and the story was considerably embellished upon her departure. And there are many, many darker stories out there.

Good luck finding a job.

[Ex-Draft emp]

Also, Auntie Christ, the merger between Compaq and HP had not yet been completed in March of 2002: http://news.com.com/2100-1001-863432.html

Whereas the announcement of Shelley's promotion to CCO was in April 2002: http://news.com.com/2100-1001-863432.html

Compaq was far from "long gone" when Shelley took over as CCO.

[Auntie Christ]

Ex,
A. Merger may have happened on paper in November of 98, but it didn't physically happen until November of 99 at the new space. November of 98 was when the Compaq general account announced it was leaving APL, and the direct group was spun off, again on paper, so APL could peruse other technology accounts.
B. Perhaps I was closer to the event than you were.
C. Was that the CD the client asked to be taken off the account shortly after?
D. I stand corrected.
E. Yes there are darker stories out there, but yet, the client said "I don't want to see person on my account again."

Hope this doesn't get in the way of our mutual hatred of the place.

[Ex-Draft emp]

I'll agree to agreeing on our mutual hatred of Draft; how's that?

Things got very complicated at that place, I'll give you that. You may indeed have different perspectives on certain situations, as well as different knowledge of, than I did. But please know that Shelley was a bright spot in my professional life, whereas Pat/Ted/Nancy contributed to some of the darker moments of mine. Glad we're both out of there. Good luck to you, and I mean that honestly.

[Auntie Christ]

It can never be a totally equitable situation when three different agencies/management styles/pay scales collide in one huge big bang.

Don't gt me wrong, I wasn't defending those people because they are friends...they're not. I wish I had kept walking when they offered me a job.

Hope you keep watching and contributing to this forum. The reality of the business is just too damned funny.

Best.

[Ex-Draft emp]

Will do, Auntie, and likewise to you. I'm just sad, because there were moments when I felt like I really was doing something, and that what I did mattered. What a fucking idiot I was.

I'm also sad because I turned down GREAT opportunities because of some misguided sense of loyalty to Draft, which apparently was one-sided.

But as I said in an earlier post, my life is wayyyyyy better now, so perhaps this is just part of sliding down the razor blade of life.

[Auntie Christ]

I know what you mean. I went into my ECDs office once and said "I quit" only to be talked out of. His reasoning? What I did was better than digging ditches, there was AC in the summer and heat in the winter, and that he would try to get me some more money. Shoulda stuck to my guns.

At times I've felt great pride and accomplishment because of work I've done, or clients who were ecstatic with results I helped them achieve, or an account person said "why aren't you running the account?", but none of it matters when the mail room delivers the white cardboard boxes to your door. It all goes out the window fast and all those accolades end up packed away until the next gig comes along and you can unpack them once more. Life Lesson: Work is just a job. Maybe that ECD was right afterall.

"Razor blade of life" sounds so Sylvia Plath, I'll call it the treadmill in the dungheap.

[Ex-Draft emp]

"Razor blade of life" is Tom Lehrer, but just as easily could have been Sylvia Plath.

AC in the summer? Sign me up!

[Ex-Draft emp]

Speaking of accolades, add them to your resumé if you can back them up with hard numbers -- e.g. "increased response rates by xx%, lowered cost-per-call by xx%, increased billing by xx% over 8 months," etcetera.

And, of course, have a great book.

[cannesboy]

That howard draft michael roth stuff is interesting. At Cannes this year Howard was talking fairly openly about how IPG would be broken up and DraftFCB would be an acquisition target!

[Auntie Christ]

Who can forget how fucking rich he became when he bought himself back from Saatchi and then sold to IPG. I'll bet anything he's scheming something similar.

[XdraftE]

Have to ask...if anyone is still watching this thread.

Where's Stanton? Poole? Guddat? F. Chang? Krippane? Rubin? Nichols?

Love em or hate em, I'd like to know what happened to them. If anything.

And, uhhhh, any account person? I really can't remember a single one of them. Shit...what does THAT tell you?

[Ex-Draft emp]

I think Stanton and Rubin have been gone for a while -- like a year or so. Nichols is still there. Don't know the fate of the others.

[Free@Last]

Last I heard, F. Chang and D. Kriphane are working on the citibank account. Extremely nice guys, who should have better jobs.

[newsflash]

I see mention of Bacolas in this thread which is funny. He was "replaced" unceremoniously a month or so ago. Very hush hush. I'll bet there is a great story there somewhere.

He is probably sucking up to a new Laurence by now.

[Ex-Draft emp]

Man, I'd love to know the story about that. What a creep that guy was.

[Auntie Christ]

Remember when Bacolas was promoted OVER his HR supervisor (some woman from Adler) and then fired her back around 2000 or 2001? Priceless moments in nepotism!

Is there really ANY Draft left in the Draft/FCB to speak of? It's just reverting back to general agency FCB with a name change, no?

[Ex-Draft emp]

Why, yes, I do, AC. She was let go as part of another bloodletting -- but before she could leave, she had to handle everyone else's exit interviews first. Knowing the whole time that she was on the same list.

Afterwards, Laurence made some speech about she'd worked for him for 12 years, and how heart-breaking it was for him to have to do this (as Bacolas smirked in the background).

Karma, baby.

[Auntie Christ]

Ex, that probably wasn't a smirk, just the grimace from a hefty capful of mouthwash as he donned his new VP HR Director nametag.

[Busted]

Frank Chang. Ugh. Gross. Hack. Sick. I know it's a long time ago - but geez...why can't these mealy-mouthed-fuck-me-up-the-ass-i'll-do -anything-to-keep-my-job-cuz-i-have-no-talent -except-my-brown-nose a-holes go back under the rocks from whence they came.

Yuk